Cyperus uitenhagensis(Steud.) C.Archer & Goetgh.

WFO wfo-0001334029 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by kevin koen
fig. a kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-05-30 / obs. 132822106
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by Henry de Lange
fig. b Henry de Lange, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75150646
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by kevin koen
fig. c kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 132822125
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by Henry de Lange
fig. d Henry de Lange, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75150661
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by kevin koen
fig. e kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63470426
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by kevin koen
fig. f kevin koen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 63470514
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16039177
Cyperus uitenhagensis, photographed by Hildegard Klein
fig. h Hildegard Klein, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 105508846

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Cyperus uitenhagensis is native: Cape Provinces, Eswatini, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mozambique, Northern Provinces Cape ProvincesEswatiniFree StateKwaZulu-NatalLesothoMozambiqueNorthern Provinces
Native distribution of Cyperus uitenhagensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
Eswatini SWZ
Free State OFS
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Lesotho LES
Mozambique MOZ
Northern Provinces TVL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyperus capensis f. globospica (C.B.Clarke) Kük.
  • Cyperus capensis var. pseudomarlothii Kük.
  • Mariscus marlothii var. globospica C.B.Clarke
  • Mariscus uitenhagensis Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.